Noun

A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:

*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth

Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:

There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

# Many of the species in the genus Erica

# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope

# Both species in the genus

# Any of the species in the genus

# Any of the species in the genus

# Any of the species in the genus

(label) Certain butterflies and moths

# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly

## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath

## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath

# , the heath fritillary

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Noun

(en-noun)

The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.

The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.

* {{quote-news

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(UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.